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My tix are nowhere near the students, but I saw the replay of Traye Simmons returning the blocked field goal for a touchdown. Did my eyes see correctly? When he reached the endzone, did he gesture the hush symbol to the student section?
I don't get it. Is there some other meaning to that?
 

It's a common celebration. It's not necessarily a slight.
 


CWCWCW said:
My tix are nowhere near the students, but I saw the replay of Traye Simmons returning the blocked field goal for a touchdown. Did my eyes see correctly? When he reached the endzone, did he gesture the hush symbol to the student section?
I don't get it. Is there some other meaning to that?
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Maybe he was doing the "act like you've been there before"?
 

Right. Shushing can be a way of telling the away crowd to be quiet, but it can also be a way of telling the home crowd it's not big deal.
 


CWCWCW said:
My tix are nowhere near the students, but I saw the replay of Traye Simmons returning the blocked field goal for a touchdown. Did my eyes see correctly? When he reached the endzone, did he gesture the hush symbol to the student section?
I don't get it. Is there some other meaning to that?
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Maybe it was a STFU to all the critics who have been mocking the "Big Play" element of his nickname.

Love the guy, and he did an awesome job of scooping that ball and taking it to the house, but he's really got to step up his pass coverage and run support for these next few games.
 

MBAGuy said:
Maybe it was a STFU to all the critics who have been mocking the "Big Play" element of his nickname.
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He can silence the critics with his play on the field not with celebrations.
 

Khaliq said:
He can silence the critics with his play on the field not with celebrations.
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Maybe he knows he lacks the physical tools necessary to shut his critics up on the field and is using celebratory mockery as his plan B.
 






Gopherprof said:
Right. Shushing can be a way of telling the away crowd to be quiet, but it can also be a way of telling the home crowd it's not big deal.
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Well, that would be absolutely stupid. Why would it not be that big of a deal? It was the clinching point of the game. And, what gives him the right to proclaim it not that big of a deal? All he did was scoop it up and run fast. Lee Campbell did all of the heavy lifting on it. And, given Lee's excited and immediate reaction and everyone else's reaction, I think most agreed that it was indeed a big deal.

Shushing your own student section makes zero sense.

Maybe he just forgot he was playing on his home field.
 

I think it he just got in the moment and kinda forgot where he was, as a defensive player he doesn't get a whole lot of chances to score a TD, although he's done it before.

I don't think Traye takes the time to plan endzone celebrations like OchoCinco does, so he blanked and that was what came to mind...I don't think it had any signficance to acting like you've been there or any of those explanations.
 



tjgopher said:
All he did was scoop it up and run fast. Lee Campbell did all of the heavy lifting on it.
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In fairness, the scoop and run is not an easy thing to execute. More often than not, coaches will tell players to just fall on the ball in the event of a fumble to ensure the TO. This case was a little different in that there was no downside to trying to return it since it was going to be our ball anyway. With that said, Traye did a good job of picking it up without breaking stride and housing it.

As an aside, it blows my mind how critical we are about things. BPT has been disappointing this year, there's no doubt about that. But we're ripping him for an odd celebration after he scored a ST TD? Sometimes 18-22 year old kids do things that don't make any sense. Can't we just leave it at that?
 

It seems to me there were 21 other kids on that field and he was the one to get to the ball. That's worthy of praise. Certainly there's no profit in minimizing the play, or the Big Play...Traye.
 


MBAGuy said:
In fairness, the scoop and run is not an easy thing to execute. More often than not, coaches will tell players to just fall on the ball in the event of a fumble to ensure the TO.
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In some cases, that is true. In this case, it was an easy scoop and score. And, the Gopher coaches teach to scoop and score (not fall on it) in almost all circumstances. They talk about it all the time.

If I came across as hyper-critical toward Traye, I apologize. I was directing my post mostly at the poster who claimed that Traye was using the celebration to say it wasn't a big deal. That makes no sense since the play was a huge deal. That said, I was puzzled by the antic. Again, puzzled, but certainly not pissed off about it by any means.
 

Schnoodler said:
It seems to me there were 21 other kids on that field and he was the one to get to the ball. That's worthy of praise. Certainly there's no profit in minimizing the play, or the Big Play...Traye.
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Yet, we have a poster on here - Gopherprof - who is claiming that it was BPT himself who was trying to tell the student section that it wasn't a big deal, in essence, that BPT was trying to minimize the play. I don't believe for a second that was the case.
 

Hey - at least he got into the end zone with the ball. I seem to recall a game against Purdue a couple years ago at the Dome where a blocked field goal was picked up by another young man wearing #15 for the Gophers. A funny thing happened to him on the way to the end zone though...
 

UptownMaroon&Gold said:
I don't think Traye takes the time to plan endzone celebrations like OchoCinco does, so he blanked and that was what came to mind...I don't think it had any signficance to acting like you've been there or any of those explanations.
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Exactly! Who cares what he does in the endzone, he scored, and that's all that matters. Great job, BPT. He can do whatever he wants if he continues putting up big plays like that.
 

His Cousin

His cousin picked up TWO fumbles against Syracuse and retuned them for touchdown on his way to becoming an all american plus other options. Tray said when recruited that he was going to do the same thing here at Minnesota
 

GopherLady said:
Exactly! Who cares what he does in the endzone, he scored, and that's all that matters. Great job, BPT. He can do whatever he wants if he continues putting up big plays like that.
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Well when you're doing something so demonstrative clearly you're trying to say something. Wanting to know what it was doesn't seem unfair.

Granted I don't think it's a huge deal either way, but I still think it's a fair question.
 

Rog said:
His cousin picked up TWO fumbles against Syracuse and retuned them for touchdown on his way to becoming an all american plus other options. Tray said when recruited that he was going to do the same thing here at Minnesota
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I think you're confusing BPT with Michael Carter.
 

Rog said:
His cousin picked up TWO fumbles against Syracuse and retuned them for touchdown on his way to becoming an all american plus other options. Tray said when recruited that he was going to do the same thing here at Minnesota
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Rog - I think you're thinking of Michael Carter (Tyrone's cousin), not Traye.

Either way, it was a fine play by Traye.
 


anyone notice what he did on the sidelines after his pick at the end of the game? he did a "come on" gesture toward the crowd after he ran over the camera guy
 


tjgopher said:
Yet, we have a poster on here - Gopherprof - who is claiming that it was BPT himself who was trying to tell the student section that it wasn't a big deal, in essence, that BPT was trying to minimize the play. I don't believe for a second that was the case.
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Seriously? Acting like it isn't a big deal doesn't mean that it isn't. It's the same reason why one might "brush dirt off their shoulders." The ultimate act of bravado is to do something remarkable and act like it's not a big deal. That doesn't mean it's not, it means that it's commonplace to you because you are always doing remarkable things.

God damn....
 

MBAGuy said:
In fairness, the scoop and run is not an easy thing to execute. More often than not, coaches will tell players to just fall on the ball in the event of a fumble to ensure the TO. This case was a little different in that there was no downside to trying to return it since it was going to be our ball anyway. With that said, Traye did a good job of picking it up without breaking stride and housing it.

As an aside, it blows my mind how critical we are about things. BPT has been disappointing this year, there's no doubt about that. But we're ripping him for an odd celebration after he scored a ST TD? Sometimes 18-22 year old kids do things that don't make any sense. Can't we just leave it at that?
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yeah that move is not all that easy lol coaches don't say JUST FALL ON IT!!!!! for no reason.
 

MBAGuy said:
In fairness, the scoop and run is not an easy thing to execute. More often than not, coaches will tell players to just fall on the ball in the event of a fumble to ensure the TO. This case was a little different in that there was no downside to trying to return it since it was going to be our ball anyway. With that said, Traye did a good job of picking it up without breaking stride and housing it.

As an aside, it blows my mind how critical we are about things. BPT has been disappointing this year, there's no doubt about that. But we're ripping him for an odd celebration after he scored a ST TD? Sometimes 18-22 year old kids do things that don't make any sense. Can't we just leave it at that?
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Damn straight. 3rd down or less -- FALL ON IT!

But trying to advanced a 4th down play in a no-brainer. At worst, you advance the ball. You only foul up if you fumble again after gaining control (geez, wasn't that in our last Purdue home game?).

BPT now has 2 TDs in two years. Most guys on D never hit that total in a career.

I can think of about 50 worse things he could have done in the endzone...
 

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